No emergency food stash can be complete without some good, solid, basic cookbooks - in print and in hand, not just links to websites which will be useless to access without electricity or if the 'net is down...

My personal nominee, if I had only one cookbook for the rest of my life:

Number One Of All Time, Five Stars with an Oak Leaf Cluster:

The Joy of Cooking, Rombauer & Becker, 1975 - or earlier is better - edition.

This classic is the most complete basic cookbook ever written, with simple, clear and classic recipes for everything. No matter what hubby brings home from the market or the hunt - it's here, with complete instructions suitable for beginners. And damned good brownies, pies, sauces, salad dressings and even a section on candy making and canning and preserving besides. Lots of topics are covered in helpful "About" sections that handle ingredients, how-tos, hints and cautions.

Editions from 1931 to 1964 (don't know about the 1975) include instructions under Game for how to prepare Squirrel, Raccoon, Bear, Beaver, Badger etc. (Hey - if you ever really needed to know this, you would really, really need to know this!)

No more complete guide to everything from the kitchen has ever been published. And I know that a lot of you good cooks will agree.

After that, The Complete Book of Pasta by Jack Denton Scott is a personal fave....uurp....

What's your personal go-to?

Selene!

My Joy of Cooking is stained and battered from many, many years in Venezuela. It was a life saver!

No sour cream - just check Joy!

Oven in celcius instead of farenheit - (yeah that happened the first day!) - just check Joy!

No buttermilk - just check Joy!

No doughnuts - just check Joy!

No sandwich bread - just check Joy!

I, too, have it ready for survival mode.

My second favorite is actually an online cookbook:

Ol' Buffalo Camp Cook

you can find it here:

http://www.nay.org/dutch_o.pdf

East Texas and I did the whole dutch oven camping/competition thing for several years and loved it. I have two dutch ovens from my grandmothers! My grandchildren think Grandma ROCKS when she cooks in her iron pot!

And, lastly, may I suggest:

http://www.boyscouttrail.com/boy-scouts/boy-scout-recipes.asp

This isn't the only source for Boy Scout recipes - do a google search.

My favorite?

Cow Sludge on Rice Recipe
This Recipe is meant for Boy Scouts.
Decide for yourself if it is appropriate for your younger scouts or not.
Required: 2 heat sources
1 skillet
1 pot

Ingredients: 1 box of instant rice (or noodles)
water
1 lb hamburger
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 can mixed vegetables
salt and pepper
Notes: It doesn't look very good, but tastes great.
If the people prefer noodles instead of rice, that works just as well.

Instructions: Start water boiling in pot for rice.
Brown hamburger and drain fat.
Stir in mushroom soup and vegetables.
While hamburger is heating, make rice following instructions on box.
When rice is done, serve hamburger over bed of rice.